Friday, October 17

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM – Addressing Individual Needs to Learning: Blended Personalized Learning in Secondary Geography Course

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Teaching Holocaust Geographies

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Nurturing Curiosity with Earth Observation Day Games

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Geography: The Key to Our Global System of Agriculture

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Teaching the Middle East and Global Migration Through Graphic Novels

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM – If You Give a Teen a Nuke…Geographic Scenario Gameplay in the Classroom

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Inquiry into Pre-War Jewish Life as a Study in Cultural Geography

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM – Beltrami on Expedition: Exploring Minnesota in 1823 in search of the Headwaters of the Mississippi River

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Why Are There So Few Black Farmers in America? A Look At The History Of Racism In Rural Land Use

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Mundane Magnificence: Artifacts, Food, and Everyday Objects in Geography!

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Empowering Geo-Inquiry: How the Science of Reading Can Strengthen Secondary Student Participation

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM – Globalizing the ‘Yellow Peril’ and Anti-Asian Racism with Human Rights Education

Saturday, October 18 - Morning Sessions

All poster session presenters will be available to discuss their work and findings during the 15-minute workshop/session breaks throughout the day.

Poster Session – Minnesota State University and the Founding of NCGE

Poster Session – Geographic Thinking in Interdisciplinary Research: Examining Conceptualization, Experience, and Comm

Poster Session – Drones in Geography Classrooms: Advantages and Challenges

Poster Session – Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Field Mapping: Engaging Students by Collecting Data using Street Surveys

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Mapping Majdanek: A Topographic Inquiry into the Bystanders of the Holocaust

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Inquiry into Persecution, Scale, and Spatial Change with Holocaust Survivor Testimonies

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Spiraling to help students interpret random internet “facts”

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Publishing in NCGE Journals

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM – Exploring Climate Change Through Play

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Chicago Today: Effects of Redlining and Urban Renewal

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Teaching About Taiwan: Crossroads of Culture and Empire

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Enhancing Capabilities Through Racially Literate Curriculum Making

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – World Regions: Revisited, Rename, Redrawn?

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Teaching Physical Regions with Interactive Mapping

9:00 PM – 9:45 AM – Insights, Tips and Results from a Teaching with Primary Sources Funded Grant

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Geography Potpourri: “Tried and True” Lessons to DO Geography

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Aspects of the Physical and Cultural Geography of Morocco

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Teaching with Primary Sources: Analyzing the Holocaust through a Geographic Lens

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Lightening Lessons for Transformative Learning

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Experiential Learning in Geography

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – (Sea) Lions, (Bengal) Tigers, & (Polar) Bears: Climate Vulnerability and our Changing Landscape

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Geo-Literacy for the Countries of the Americas

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Beyond the Hype: Critical AI Literacy for Geography and Social Studies Educators

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – The Fate of Research in Geography Education: A Look Back to Plan Forward

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Harnessing AI to Enhance Language Acquisition and Content Mastery in the Geography Classroom

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – People and their Environment: Human Geography Lessons for Young Learners

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – Traversing the Historical Religious Geography of India and Nepal

Saturday, October 18th - Afternoon Sessions

All poster session presenters will be available to discuss their work and findings during the 15-minute workshop/session breaks throughout the day.

Poster Session – Minnesota State University and the Founding of NCGE

Poster Session – Geographic Thinking in Interdisciplinary Research: Examining Conceptualization, Experience, and Communication

Poster Session – Drones in Geography Classrooms: Advantages and Challenges

Poster Session – Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Beyond the Map: Organizing a GIS-Focused Study Abroad Experience

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Borchert Teacher Fellowship: Letting Teachers Loose in a Map Library

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Box, Box, Box! Fostering pre-service elementary teachers’ geographic lens through global F1 and STEM

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Localizing Global Challenges: A Case Study on constructing EcoBricks in Intro Geography courses

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Exploring South Asia Through Literature: Using Award-Winning Books to Enrich Geography Education

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – Restricting the Mercator Map Projection Usage in Public School Classrooms

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – How the Amazon Rainforest connects and supports your classroom curriculum and why it’s important to teach about it.

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Promoting Critical Perspectives in a Geography Methods Course

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Geography Teaching for the Future: Leveraging New Ideas

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Place Representation and Music Geography: Australia and Midnight Oil

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – Food Geography

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – The Chesapeake Bay Climate Institute: Integrating Climate Literacy into Curriculum

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Omaha Redlining: How the hotel we are in divided Omaha

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Context, Input, and Implementation Challenges on Learning Outcomes in Geography

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – How Do We Define Regions?

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Count Me In! Using Labs to Teach Population Geography

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – The Student Atlas of Nebraska – Ten Years in Practice

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM – Exploring the Complex Geography of the Balkans

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Mapping the African American Green Book

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – The geography of the Holocaust: Topics, geographical concepts, methods, and representation

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Engaging local history through data literacy, storytelling, and digital scholarship

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Citizenship, Identity, and Othering in the Nazi Camp System

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM – Case Studies and World Geography

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Sovereignty, Territoriality, and the Zangezur Corridor

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – When to Teach “Introductory” GIS? Evaluating Course Sequencing Across Institutions

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Pecans: The All-American Nut

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Mapping the Geographical Theme of Movement on the GeoHistoGram

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Context, Input and Implementation Challenges on Learning Outcomes in Geography

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